From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Technical udev question for Greg
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:24:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FF75D26.5070009@myrealbox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040103214750.GB11061@kroah.com>
Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:47:08PM -0800, walt wrote:
>>I acidentally ran a script which ran MAKEDEV
>>while udev was running.
>>
>>Now /dev/.udev.tdb is very large and devices have strange permissions
>>they didn't have before.
> As udev didn't get called when runinng MAKEDEV, I don't see how the udev
> database could have grown.
Well, after doing the steps below the size of the db didn't seem any
smaller, true enough.
>>All I want to do is delete all the extraneous devices in .udev.tdb
>>and start over. How do I do that?
> rm -rf /dev/*
> rm -f /dev/.udev.tdb
> /etc/init.d/udev start
However, after doing the above and recreating a few missing devices
the behavior of the machine seems back to normal, so clearly I did
something that mattered. I don't pretend to understand how or why,
but thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-04 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-03 20:47 Technical udev question for Greg walt
2004-01-03 21:47 ` Greg KH
2004-01-04 0:24 ` walt [this message]
2004-01-04 0:59 ` Martin Schlemmer
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